First came the fireball – searing its way through the Midwestern skies, turning night into day and scaring the bejesus out of the simple-minded but fundamentally good folk of Garrison Keillor country.  Then came the volcano – spewing its pagan Icelandic filth and obscenity into our delicate lungs and our precious jet engines, like some latter-day Ragnarok – and screwing up publishers’ travel plans for the London Book Fair.  And then… to top it off – came tonight’s enhanced-oestrogen edition of Litopia After Dark! What a week!

Tonight’s guest are Eve Harvey,  Donna Ballman, Dr. Susan O’Doherty and Cath Murphy – and with a chat room approaching  boiling point – it’s an eruptive show!

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Topics on tonight’s show include:

• British taxpayer overpays Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs  – gets fined
• Barcode bandit causes Tourette’s with scanner – allegedly
• Literary revenge is a dish best eaten any which way you can
• Dogs licks bollocks, will you still eat the cake?
• Will the return of radical bookshops save publishing – or us?

This week’s titles for the Commissioning Meeting are:

DONNA
“Her Weight in Gold”
George Barr McCutcheon, 1866-1928

DR SUE
“Happy-Thought Hall”
Sir Francis Cowley Burnand 1836-1917

CATH
“Lives of the Necromancers”
William Godwin, 1756-1836

EVE
“The Lost Kafoozalum”
Pauline Ashwell, 1928-

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